Company Details

Name Q-Chip
Year founded 2003
Category Medicine
University partner Cardiff
Fusion IP shareholding 11%

Contact Details

Contact details  Ken Powell
Q-Chip Limited
Cardiff MediCentre
Heath Park
Cardiff
CF14 4UJ
Telephone +44 (0) 29 2068 2092
E-mail mark.barry@q-chip.com
Website http://www.q-chip.com/

Company Background

Q Chip develops advanced life science and therapeutic products using its proprietary MicroPlant platform for the production of precision loaded polymer microspheres. The company was founded in October 2003, and has secured approximately £400,000 revenues and approximately £3.2 million of equity investment from groups including CPF, E-Synergy, Finance Wales and Biofusion. These investments have enabled Q Chip to develop and now exploit three core precision microsphere products: 

  • ReaX – for advanced bead based molecular reagents and cell assays 
  • BiologiX – benign and efficient encapsulation system for the delivery and sustained release of biopharmaceutical drugs 
  • IonX – microsphere system for delivery and controlled release of small molecule therapies.

For the non-technical

Q-Chip’s technology can measure identical quantities of different materials, and then encapsulate them in identical microscopic spheres, that can be used in the manufacture of products for all types of industry from drugs to dog food.


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